…‘Royal Red’ Acer platanoides ‘Royal Red’ Acer heldreichii looks very much like an A. platanoides! Acer heldreichii Acer heldreichii Azalea ‘Coccinea Grandiflora’ making a good show. Azalea ‘Coccinea Grandiflora’ Azalea…

…Better than Quercus rubra or not? Smaller leaf certainly here but the jury is out. Quercus coccinea Quercus coccinea Fothergilla major – what a collection of colours! Astonishing. Fothergilla major…

…slightly scruffy. The flowers are never quite all out together. Crinum powellii Crinum powellii Crinum powellii Crassula coccinea full out. Rather better than the species which we stock. Crassula coccinea…

…shrub. Escallonia ‘Compacta Coccinea’ Escallonia ‘Compacta Coccinea’ Sadly this is not quite a Dianthus ‘Mrs Sinkins’ which we are missing pictures of but hugely scented and had already been out…

…Melaleuca diosmifolia Crassula coccinea. Crassula coccinea Erica cerinthoides – the heath from South African which Burncoose has sold on occasion. Erica cerinthoides Echium gentianoides was a startling blue. Echium gentianoides…

…‘Royal Flush’ Rhododendron vaseyi and Rhododendron arizelum. Rhododendron vaseyi and Rhododendron Rhododendron decorum out earlier than expected by Tin Garden. Rhododendron decorum Azalea ‘Coccinea Grandiflora’. Azalea ‘Coccinea Grandiflora’ The Caerhays…

…if we had the sun on it. beech tree The Quercus coccinea by the garden entrance is also putting on its first leaves. Strangely attractive how they seem to droop…

…widely grown (one was over and one still to come out). Azalea ‘Maja’ – nearly over Azalea ‘Maja’ Azalea ‘Maja’ Azalea ‘Coccinea Grandiflora’ – raised before 1922 Azalea ‘Coccinea Grandiflora’…

…jasminum ‘Album’ still with flower in a tunnel. Solarium jasminum ‘Album’ Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Jelena’ just out. Other varieties still to show colour. Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Jelena’ Schizostylis coccinea ‘Major’…

…even better than a week ago. Quercus imbricaria Quercus imbricaria Quercus coccinea stunning too. Quercus coccinea Lagerstroemia indica ‘Red Emperor’ Lagerstroemia indica ‘Red Emperor’ Fothergilla intermedia ‘Blue Shadow’ Fothergilla intermedia…